In this paper we present an extension of a phrase-based decoder that dynamically chunks, reorders, and applies phrase translations in tandem. A maximum entropy classifier is trained based on the word alignments to find the best positions to chunk the source sentence. No language specific or syntactic information is used to build the chunking classifier. Words inside the chunks are moved togethe...

P2P video streaming is receiving enormous attention, and when video is involved, the efficient use of the network becomes a very important issue, specially if live applications are addressed. In this work we study properties of Push/Pull protocols for the exchange of video chunks in non-structured systems. Push/Pull protocols are a broad class of chunk exchange mechanisms where peers alternate ...

How do listeners integrate temporally distributed phonemic information into coherent representations of syllables and words? For example, increasing the silence interval between the words "gray chip" may result in the percept "great chip," whereas increasing the duration of fricative noise in "chip" may alter the percept to "great ship" (B. H. Repp, A. M. Liberman, T. Eccardt, & D. Pesetsky, 19...

This work extends phrase-based statistical MT (SMT) with shallow syntax dependencies. Two string-to-chunks translation models are proposed: a factored model, which augments phrase-based SMT with layered dependencies, and a joint model, that extends the phrase translation table with microtags, i.e. perword projections of chunk labels. Both rely on n-gram models of target sequences with different...

Chess experts remember meaningful chess positions better than novices (de Groot, 1978; Chase & Simon, 1973). This can be explained with a larger number of chunks in experts’ long-term memory (Gobet & Simon, 1998). These chunks are mainly based on visual representations—that is, pieces on squares. However, a recent experiment highlighted that experts prefer to group chess positions by abstract s...

This paper describes a hybrid machine translation system that explores a parser to acquire syntactic chunks of a source sentence, translates the chunks with multiple online machine translation (MT) system application program interfaces (APIs) and creates output by combining translated chunks to obtain the best possible translation. The selection of the best translation hypothesis is performed b...